Case Report
Spontaneous Regression of Large Cell Carcinoma of the Lung, a Case Report
| Margriet Kwint1*, Michel van den Heuvel2, Dominic Snijders3, Kim Monkhorst4 and Jose Belderbos1 | |
| 1Department of Radiation Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2Department of Pulmonology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 3Department of Pulmonology, Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands | |
| 4Department of Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Corresponding Author : | Margriet Kwint Department of Radiation Oncology The Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +0031205122125 E-mail: m.kwint@nki.nl |
| Received: September 21, 2015 Accepted: October 16, 2015 Published: October 19, 2015 | |
| Citation: Kwint M, van den Heuvel M, Snijders D, Monkhorst K, Belderbos J (2015) Spontaneous Regression of Large Cell Carcinoma of the Lung, a Case Report. OMICS J Radiol 4:206. doi:10.4172/2167-7964.1000206 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Kwint M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Spontaneous regression of malignancies are a rare biological phenomenon, especially in lung cancer. Here, we present a case of an 80-year old man, with a cT2aN3M1b non-small cell lung cancer of the left upper lobe, whose tumor regressed spontaneously without any treatment. The cause of the spontaneous tumor remission remains unknown in this case. We describe this rare case and review the literature pertaining to spontaneous regression of lung cancer.
